What does a Field Technician need with him at all times?

[Vegito]

I'm assuming you got a car ? You can leave some of this in..

- Notebook with dvd burner
- Spare network adapter
- USB network adapter
- Spare memory, ddr, sdram, sodimm (just get lowest one) to test boot problems
- Spare video card
- Windows on USB @ http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050909/index.html
- Windows XP Home/Pro/2000/2003 CDs
- USB HDD - in case some guy got porn and u need to download
- USB external dvd for those notebooks
- Blank dvd/hd
- Flashlight - bright one
- One of those screw grabber in case you drop screw
- I got a dental mirror so i can see jumper in tight spot w/o moving stuff around.
- Batteries
- Hidden 2.4ghz video cam
- Hidden video cam receiver to your notebook
- Spare vga/dvi cable
- Spare keyboard/mouse PS2 & USB
- Spare usb cable

 

[imported_Phil]

Ultimate Boot CD (Google it)
Ultimate Boot CD For Windows (fantastic)
Norton Ghost
Partition Magic
XP Pro / 2003 etc

These are all the discs I've ever needed (yet).

 

[dsd17]

Originally posted by: forcesho
I'm assuming you got a car ? You can leave some of this in..

- Notebook with dvd burner
- Spare network adapter
- USB network adapter
- Spare memory, ddr, sdram, sodimm (just get lowest one) to test boot problems
- Spare video card
- Windows on USB @ http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050909/index.html
- Windows XP Home/Pro/2000/2003 CDs
- USB HDD - in case some guy got porn and u need to download
- USB external dvd for those notebooks
- Blank dvd/hd
- Flashlight - bright one
- One of those screw grabber in case you drop screw
- I got a dental mirror so i can see jumper in tight spot w/o moving stuff around.
- Batteries
- Hidden 2.4ghz video cam
- Hidden video cam receiver to your notebook
- Spare vga/dvi cable
- Spare keyboard/mouse PS2 & USB
- Spare usb cable

- Hidden 2.4ghz video cam
- Hidden video cam receiver to your notebook

what would I need these two items for?

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: dsd17

- Hidden 2.4ghz video cam
- Hidden video cam receiver to your notebook

what would I need these two items for?

For

A condom, because you never know when you will run into a lonely housewife.

 

[dsd17]

Originally posted by: forcesho

Originally posted by: dsd17

- Hidden 2.4ghz video cam
- Hidden video cam receiver to your notebook

what would I need these two items for?

For

A condom, because you never know when you will run into a lonely housewife.

my wife didn't find that humorous for some reason..

 

[Rubycon]

Chapstick
Roadflares

 

[mdchesne]

pants

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Hiren's boot disk for DOS/Windows based machine

Knoppix for Unix based machines

Hiren's BootDisk...lolmao...i mean its a good start.

WAY better: BartPE, WinPE configured with essential things like virus killers, spyware cleaners, disk imager, backup software, recovery software, drivers etc.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I used to carry a full screwdriver/torx/hex set from machinists sizes all the way up to #3, (if you work on lexmark printers you'll need a #2 10" phillips and flat head screwdriver) a full socket set complete with wobbles and 2' worth of varying extentions, an extendable mirror/magnet, a good VRM w/spare 9v battery, a flashlight w/spare batteries, several short wires to use as jumper wire, a large canister of zip ties, machine oil, a small tube of lithium grease, a small can of wd-40, a small can of that pcb cleaner stuff(forget what you call it), canned air, a tube full of spare; screws, jumpers, washers , etc., mobo 3V batteries, soldering iron with; flux, solder sucker, 3-4 types of solder, and spare tips, shrink tube, ferite cores, electrical tape, tweezers, dikes, wrenches, "spare hands", packaged alcohol wipes, hammer, mini-pry bar, thermal grease, rubber bands, a sharpie marker, "lock tite", super glue, an 800Mhz O-Scope w/probes, and various specialty tools for some of the robitics equipment I used to work on. (I'm sure I've left some other stuff out)

(I always care a 3" sarrated knife, but if you don't, put one in your tool box)

Now, I just carry a #2 screwdriver in my carpenter jeans ruler pocket and my swipe badge. It soooooo much nicer than not having to make house calls and drive all over the country anymore.

It was a fun job, but after Enron and the World Trade Towers fell, the salary went south really south, and my hours doubled from 30-35 to 60-70 a week)

(I used to work for www.smartech-csi.com, now I work for our local hospital)

 

[eakers]

ultimate boot disk?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I used to carry a full screwdriver/torx/hex set from machinists sizes all the way up to #3, (if you work on lexmark printers you'll need a #2 10" phillips and flat head screwdriver) a full socket set complete with wobbles and 2' worth of varying extentions, an extendable mirror/magnet, a good VRM w/spare 9v battery, a flashlight w/spare batteries, several short wires to use as jumper wire, a large canister of zip ties, machine oil, a small tube of lithium grease, a small can of wd-40, a small can of that pcb cleaner stuff(forget what you call it), canned air, a tube full of spare; screws, jumpers, washers , etc., mobo 3V batteries, soldering iron with; flux, solder sucker, 3-4 types of solder, and spare tips, shrink tube, ferite cores, electrical tape, tweezers, dikes, wrenches, "spare hands", packaged alcohol wipes, hammer, mini-pry bar, thermal grease, rubber bands, a sharpie marker, "lock tite", super glue, an 800Mhz O-Scope w/probes, and various specialty tools for some of the robitics equipment I used to work on. (I'm sure I've left some other stuff out)

(I always care a 3" sarrated knife, but if you don't, put one in your tool box)

Now, I just carry a #2 screwdriver in my carpenter jeans ruler pocket and my swipe badge. It soooooo much nicer than not having to make house calls and drive all over the country anymore.

It was a fun job, but after Enron and the World Trade Towers fell, the salary went south really south, and my hours doubled from 30-35 to 60-70 a week)

(I used to work for www.smartech-csi.com, now I work for our local hospital)

WTF! I hope you aren't talking about the stuff you kept in your bag-of-tricks and that they issued a fscking Ford Econoline to haul all that crap around

 

[Mojoed]

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[no0b]

<< 800Mhz O-Scope w/probes,>>

I hope you didn't buy that, damn...

Also you forgot solder wick and flux remover.

 

[Gunbuster]

VICTORINOX CyberTool 34 and the Toshiba phillips double sided driver. All I ever needed.

 

[Freejack2]

As a former field tech (left the middle of this year) I can tell you I carried a trunk full of stuff. One biggie is to carry a cd with useful utilities. Things like a virus scanner, and the major spyware scanners.
I'll try to remember what I carried and make a list of it for you.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: no0b
<< 800Mhz O-Scope w/probes,>>

I hope you didn't buy that, damn...

Also you forgot solder wick and flux remover.

I got it from a co-worker, he gave it to me for free since he didn't know how to use it, and didn't need it in his area anyway, I rarely used it, but it was a necissary tool to calibrate the optical character recognition reader on a unisys dp-500 (a big machine that runs checks through bank processes at high speeds) I serviced.....and I told you I was sure I left a few things out

Some of that stuff just stayed in the back seat of my truck (the scope isn't exactly light).

 

[Shadowknight]

1. Lots of patience when trying to figure out what the problem is
2. Lots of patience when the customer keeps bugging you/screaming at you to fix the problem instead of letting you do just that
3. Cell phone so you can call work if there's something you don't know how to deal with a particular problem (ex: customer is running screwed up proprietary software you've never used or heard of and you need specific information the customer is too ignorant to be able to tell you.)